any north americans wanting to go to this, contact me i need to return to the mother land
my schedule is open
i make tons of money as a bike messenger
plus the rabbi is going over to be with pope at this time
lemme know

You could recreate this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris-Rouen , supposedly the first ever intercity bike race (1869!), and see if you could beat the top finishing time of 10 hours (for 123km) on polo gear.

hugo, can you give me more information about this train? i have only been able to find a train (the RER) from CDG Airport to Gar de Nord, and then i would have to transfer to Gar St. Lazare where i can catch a train to Rouen. But this would be over two hours total. is there a direct train from CDG to Rouen?

when are you leaving Paris for Rouen? we arrive early on Thursday, so perhaps we could all go together?

We have just booked our tickets and we plan on going to the Tournament in MAN as well. Then we will be spending the week after in England and flying out of London on the 26 and 27. So make sure you get all your people to represent because we our hoping to play the best teams in Europe when were out there.

Yorgo I was wondering if you have any information for this tournament I think I registered and emailed the people a couple of days ago but have not heard back from them. I just would very much like to know if we have a place to crash or not. My team and myself have never been to Manchester so we know very little about it and any info would be appreciated.
Thanks
Leon
Seattle Bike Polo

Manchester is slow. they'll get back to you eventually...
I've emailed Nes asking for details about the tourney; format, teams registered, etc. etc. so I can you know, just in case, when she gets back to me.

There is a kid from rouen who lives in madison now named pierre. He is quite good at polo, i don't think he is going to make this tourney but he will play with you guys this summer. He was super excited to find out about polo in rouen.

Drew, Sebastien, and I just booked our tickets for this trip and all though we are fly air France our first hub is on Delta. I just called them and they said it was going to be $300 for a bike. Does anyone know of a better way of sending this. The trip was already putting a big dent in our wallet but this is ridiculous.

get quite a large hockey bag. rory says: goalie bag. i figure if you ask at a sports store they'll be able to hook you up. i was able to fit my entire bike - with wheels - and all my mallets and still had tons of room for clothes, parts, tools, etc. rorybear was able to fit two bikes into his if i remember correctly.

In the states, you sometimes have to pay for the domestic leg of your flight. The longhaul part should be free. I got stung hard on this over xmas, not knowing it was in effect over there.
Definitely look into the 'artwork' and other sports equipment options. You could also use your bikebag (or hockey bag) as your main luggage stuffing it full of your clothes and whatnot, possibly paying a smaller amount.
See ya in France!

The americans are comming...
Leon can't be the only globetrotting polo tramp.
As I put finger to keyboard the great and generous rabbi is purchasing tickets for christopher and I
We are still looking for a third usa douchebag....
RICHMOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DONE TEAM STRANGE IN THE HOUSE
Chris nyc
jas dc
Sean RICHMOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cant wait this is going to be so much fun
Remember Leon I know your Wizerdry

we are flying in to Paris from NY on Wednesday April 8. We will be touching down at around 11:25am on Thursday April 9. Unfortunately we all fly back on monday afternoon but we should most definitely get our OOTA on

Strange did really well but got taken out by London's BAD Polo in the semis I think. Great tournament, great to finally be able to compare the level between Europe and the USA (the gap is narrowing....)
Sean's leg was purple-ish
Jas was drunk at the end
Seabass spoke french
Chris was extra nice to sub for my team
Drew was a true gent
And Leon blew everyone's mind with a goal shot off a bouncing ball, 60 cms off the ground. I hope someone's got it on video.

notice
thanks yorgo, big love my man
i was drunk at the END...
did my best to remain semi sober the most of the time at least we only lost ta 1 and 2
everyone involveld with this program massive respect
pleasantly suprised at the level of compitition
go london!!!!!!!
still nursing my wounds from the "USURPER" and wanting to review the tapes as it is still unclear how 2 americans can colide so hard in france
i love you leon
to our hosts thank-you yeralt rules
SKEET SKEET SKEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

F'ckin' awesome tournament - props to all involved with organisation and everybody that turned up and played or supported. I thought London represented pretty damned well!
Great to play with all of you guys - 'til next time…

what an amazing event, from the pick-up in paris to the pick-up in the town where joan of arc was burned, to the actual tournament games.
guthrie, hugo, pierre, marc, you guys rock for showing us all around paris and taking us to and from rouen. thank you again and again.
yorgo, it was my pleasure to sub on your team. too bad guthrie couldn't secure a win for you too!
london: there are just too many of you cunts to individually acknowledge. it was one of the best parts of my trip to have had the opportunity to meet and play with so many of you. now switch to freewheels and come to the worlds.
jas: need i say anything brother?
sean: next time you travel internationally for polo, stay off the tall bike for at least two weeks prior.
broken legs: great job organizing the event. how can we get some of those beautifully printed posters?
i'll post a link soon to a bunch of pictures taken by roger.
brendan and everyone else who took footage: we've got to see that video.
skeet skeet skeet

hey chris!
thanks for making our crap team win one game. We played like shit all day, even Guthrie couldn't save us. At least I scored ONE miserable goal against Strange.

As everyone said, this was an epic tournament, I think a turning point in the history of Hardcourt Bike Polo, in the sense that it was the first time that American teams came to Europe in a serious and organised way (Adam+Zack in Zurich was a FAIL, and Kev, Jonny and Ben in Paris included a very parisian Kevin), and met some form of opposition (although the finals were done in a few minutes...).

I think you guys inspired a lot of people, and made us realize how much progress there is to do still. FUCK FREEWHEELS though. But I'll give it a try...

i take offense at that. you can take the kanuckunuck out of canada but you cat put the perisian in him. thats fine though, you know the teams that played at this last tournement never make it to the top eight of any decent tournys here stateside. i doubt Jas has ever even been on a team that made it to the top 16.

yeah but im sure canada was wasted after doing beer bongs and jello shots at the wet tshirt contest. and did u see all those pics of brian passed out in different places...he wasnt in top form.www.mkebikepolo.com

The London Polo Massive can't stop talking about this weekend. Sounds like it was amazing. More to come fellas. I can't wait until we start having big international events. (Which suggests we should make the "Euros" and the "NA" tournies opens. Fuck geography.

In the spirit of multinational solidarity solidarity, Malice International is leaving in 10 hours to take the European pride back by destroying the Seattle Super Shitbags.

that's what i'm saying, i wanna go to the euros... when that thread was active on bikepolo.ca all those brits said "no way" for north americans... it's cuz there scared to get thwamped (that's what i thinkanyways) but big deal, when it comes to tournaments, the bigger the better. plus, the more regions and different teams represented the better... why prolong it. if europe gets crushed (which they will ;) ) it would still be an awesome tourney.

I hope there is a bunch of teams from europe in philly for the worlds... i'd love to play some european teams and meet you guys